WIRED Money 2017: Speakers

Innovators, disruptors and leaders will share their insights on forthcoming trends, from distributed ledger technology and personal financial management to the rise of algorithmic trading and the bank of the future

From the innovator behind IBM's rapid advancements in blockchain to the man who taught AI to remember, we're excited to present the speakers for WIRED Money, taking place in London on May 18, 2017.

Ajay Bhalla

President, Global Enterprise Risk & Security, Mastercard

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Ajay Bhalla has helped shape the new digital payments landscape by pioneering the development and use of biometrics and artificial intelligence to improve the protection and security of MasterCard customers.

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Anne Boden

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With over 30 years’ experience, Anne founded Starling Bank, a fintech business with a banking licence that is shifting control to customers, giving them access to insights, data and services that empower them to make decisions about their money.

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Dagmar Bottenbruch

Co-CEO, ‎CrossLend GmbH

CrossLend is a FinTech startup seeking to reshape the EU’s lending economy by enabling the free flow of capital within Europe via single-loan securitisation and creation of a European debt exchange.

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John Fawcett

Founder, Quantopian

Founded by serial entrepreneur John Fawcett, Quantopian is an institution-grade platform that enables users to trade quantitatively in the same way as hedge funds do. Authors receive a share of profits.

Chris Gorst

Fintech Challenge Prize Lead, Nesta

Chris Gorst leads the Open Up Challenge at innovation foundation Nesta, a £5m fund to accelerate the emergence of game-changing innovations for small businesses building on the UK's open banking standard.

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Nick Hungerford, co-founder and director, Nutmeg. Nutmeg is democratising investment, enabling users to set up a portfolio in less than ten minutes. It has raised $90 million in funding.

Arvind Krishna

SVP, Director of Research, IBM

The man behind IBM's blockchain innovations, Krishna will discuss how the anticipated open source blockchain platform from the Linux Foundation Hyperledger Project will change the nature of business transactions.

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Andrew Lam-Po-Tang

Executive director, business transformation, R/GA London

With more than two decades’ international experience in business transformation, strategy, design and technology, Andrew has led major transformation initiatives across a range of sectors including media, finance, manufacturing and government. His mission at R/GA is to help clients transform their business and capture new growth opportunities.

Joern Leogrande

Executive vice president of Mobile Services, Wirecard

Responsible for Wirecard's product innovation, Leogrande will examine how artificial intelligence can be used to make accurate predictions about customer behaviour in real-time.

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Diana Paredes

CEO and Founder, Suade

Suade takes the complexity out of regulatory compliance for banks. It helps institutions compare their operations to regulations, manages implementation and enables them to maximise available business opportunities.

Alex Rice

Co-founder & CTO, HackerOne

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After founding Facebook’s product security team, Alex Rice co-founded bug bounty platform HackerOne. Since 2012, the network has grown to comprise more than 100,000 hackers and has paid over $14 million in bounties.

Christoph Rieche

Co-founder and CEO, iwoca

Rieche oversees the day-to-day operations, finance and strategy for iwoca, a credit platform for small businesses that offers loans of up to £100,000.

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Jürgen Schmidhuber

Jürgen Schmidhuber is best known as the Father of Modern A.I. The deep learning neural networks developed by Schmidhuber’s group at TU Munich and the Swiss AI Lab IDSIA have revolutionised machine learning and AI.

Calogero Scibetta

Head of Business Development, EverLedger

Everledger uses blockchain technology to create permanent digital footprints for diamonds and other valuable goods, effectively and efficiently improving the security and transparency of asset records through its supply chain journey.